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Rudd met with tech giants today to discuss what more could be done on stopping terrorist content (Source: Getty)

Rebecca Smith

Home secretary Amber Rudd has said she wants tech giants to "go further" to stop terrorist content from going online, after a meeting she held with a host of senior executives from the likes of Google and Facebook.

The home secretary met with the technology firms to discuss what role they should have in helping to combat terrorism. She said it was "a useful discussion" and was "glad to see that progress has been made".

The debate over authorities' access to communications was ignited again after it was reported that the Westminster attacker Khalid Masood used WhatsApp shortly before the tragedy.

"We need to make sure that organisations like WhatsApp, and there are plenty of others like that, don't provide a secret place for terrorist to communicate with each other," Rudd said after the attack.

At today's meeting, Rudd was keen to raise concerns over encryption, along with her focus on ramping up efforts to clamp down on terrorist material and propaganda online.